Boundary effects in entanglement entropy

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.07.029zbMATH Open1345.81110arXiv1604.07571OpenAlexW2343827490MaRDI QIDQ314902FDOQ314902

Clément Berthiere, Sergey N. Solodukhin

Publication date: 16 September 2016

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a number of explicit calculations of Renyi and entanglement entropies in situations where the entangling surface intersects the boundary in $d$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. When the boundary is a single plane we compute the contribution to the entropy due to this intersection, first in the case of the Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions, and then in the case of a generic Robin type boundary condition. The flow in the boundary coupling between the Neumann and Dirichlet phases is analyzed in arbitrary dimension $d$ and is shown to be monotonic, the peculiarity of $d=3$ case is noted. We argue that the translational symmetry along the entangling surface is broken due the presence of the boundary which reveals that the entanglement is not homogeneous. In order to characterize this quantitatively, we introduce a density of entanglement entropy and compute it explicitly. This quantity clearly indicates that the entanglement is maximal near the boundary. We then consider the situation where the boundary is composed of two parallel planes at a finite separation and compute the entanglement entropy as well as its density in this case. The complete contribution to entanglement entropy due to the boundaries is shown not to depend on the distance between the planes and is simply twice the entropy in the case of single plane boundary. Additionally, we find how the area law, the part in the entropy proportional to the area of entire entangling surface, depends on the size of the separation between the two boundaries. The latter is shown to appear in the UV finite part of the entropy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07571

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B24)

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